LETTER: What ODs leave behind

After reading the many stories on the drug overdoses in the area, I would like to bring out some attention to the victims the families of an addict — the suffering and broken pieces they leave in their wake.

After reading the many stories on the drug overdoses in the area, I would like to bring out some attention to the victims the families of an addict — the suffering and broken pieces they leave in their wake.

No one can imagine the heartache being married to one. No one can imagine what happens to a family with an addict in their family. It becomes all torn apart.

Once there was a family who lived in a little white house all happy together. The husband and father became an addict at about 50 years old.

He then then lied, stole, started to physically and mentally abuse his wife. She tried to hold it all together for the sake of the family and incurred all the pain.

In doing so, she lost respect and her daughters and now she is alone. That family is no more; all broken by one man’s actions.

I lost my daughters, from which I will never recover. I lost the man I loved for so many years, I lost my family — all shattered pieces, and soon after, my home of 40 years.

So please remember the victims who are innocent of this ugly disease or choice to get high.